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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

BoD Daily Update

WWE Main Event No Longer on the WWE Network
With the official launch of the WWE Network in Great Britain, the WWE is unable to broadcast Main Event in those countries due to an existing deal with Sky for that series and since the WWE Network is unable to geotag programming for certain regions and block the series in the United Kingdom that they have pulled the show from the Network until they can work something out.

Update on Roman Reigns Promos
According to Wade Keller of PWTorch, Reigns does have a history of rejecting scripts for promos, for those wondering.

Credit Wade Keller, PWTorch

Update on The Miz & Damien Mizdow
The plan is for the duo to split up with Mizdow showing embarrassing footage from the cameras that followed around the Miz, who will get pissed and that will lead to the split, with Sandow likely turning babyface. The company has praised both guys over the past few months.

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I guess Reigns doesn't want to upset Vince or the writers at this VERY moment, when he has a Rumble win and Mania title win on the cards. If they suddenly decide he's disagreeable and a hothead and pull his super push, he'd probably regret it.

"Reigns is all driving a lime green minivanand wearin' a chef's apron. It's super sick. He sees off in the distance some trees and stuff. Then a cardboard cut out of Pauley Shore runs after him, and he dives into a sick pile of puppies or something while reciting the pledge of allegiance. It's all pretty sweet."

Reigns isn't the most talented guy in the world and he hasn't risen above the material or anything (though I'm not sure anyone could rise above the material he gets), but it's amazing how much they've managed to fuck the poor guy up so far.

I still say the Mizdow angle should end with a match at WM for the rights to BE The Miz. Then, when Sandow wins, you have a new story where The Miz has to rough it as plain old Mike Mizanin, while Mizdow does an exponentially better job at being The Miz than he did.

Maybe he has a history of rejecting scripts from the writer monkeys but doesn't really feel comfortable saying no to something Vince wrote for him. I know that sometimes Vince respects guys who stand up to him but he also seems very mercurial and could easily get pissed if some fairly new guy rejects something he personally wrote.

Either way, it shows that when the pressure and spotlight is on him, in the ring or out of it, if it's not one of his memorized signature spots, he flounders around and doesn't know how to flesh things out.

Finally finished Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, and ultimately, I ended up doing a complete 180 on the ship-to-ship combat and fleet management simulator. I got pretty deep into it and really enjoyed it.

Story was decent too, although the sooner they recognize that nobody gives a soaring shit about the present day storyline, the better off we'll all be.

No I mean he carries petty grudges when someone doesn't fit his mold. And if you want to talk about who does and doesn't move ratings, I could bring up his buddy Randy Orton who actually DROPPED ratings during his run on top, but was none-the-less shoved down our throats for years. Or golden boy Roman Reigns. Admittedly he's probably more of McMahon's pet project but the crowd is already turning on him and it's only going to get worse. Oh and Punk seems plenty respectful to people who show him some.

I wouldn't call it chills, but the last time wrestling 'raised my eyebrows' was when Bruno went into the hall of fame and the Bret Shawn bury the hatchet promo. There is now literally nothing else that could happen that would draw my attention enough to watch or, heavens to betsy, pay them money.

What's sad is when you think of all the guys that Savage could have put over. Imagine ubber heel Savage having a run with the belt and being the guy to put Shawn over at mania.

Obviously I'm not saying to make Savage a lifetime main eventer, but if I'm Savage I'm saying "Look, I've shown this loyalty while others haven't. Give me a run on top and the guy I put over will be shot up into the next hemisphere".

The traction thing would have been tremendous. Rude visiting Liz in the hospital, in full Lurker mode!

I would also have loved to see that scenario with Rude vs. Dusty. It seemed the perfect contrast of characters in 1990. Rude antagonizing Dusty for being fat, but Dusty being the ultimate blue-collar representative of the 'rasslin fans'. Rude hitting the Awakening on Sapphire would have been EPIC.